There is a difference between the power you have and the power you control. Anyone can learn to hit hard. Anyone can train for explosiveness. The mechanics can be trained and the power can be developed. Any one of my beginner students can swing their hand and hit the pad with a force that makes a loud BANG on the pad. But not everyone learns how to harness what they have developed and it’s what gets martial artists in trouble, as well as people in everyday life. In martial ar

When we talk about emotions, we often talk about feeling happy, sad, angry, or anxious. There are a wide range of emotional layers that easily come to mind, but love is so often left off in its own category. The word love seems to carry a bit more weight. Up on its pedestal, it is often more challenging to talk about. Especially for men. It’s either downplayed and stripped of its edge. Or it’s framed as something with such power that the mere mention of it could transform the

No one is coming to save you. That’s a truth that hits with some precision. As we get older, life has a way of stripping away some of the stories that once protected us. The idea that things will eventually settle down for us. That someone will show up at the exact right moment and things will fall into place. That if we’re patient enough, strong enough, or good enough, we will achieve the things in life and finally make us feel secure. Like a quiet detonation, adulthood teac

Most men don’t need another motivational quote. Social media is littered with powerful quotes and opinions about masculinity in today’s world. We are told how the world sees us. They tell us what we should be willing to give in a relationship and where it is appropriate to set boundaries. Different experts with different ideas about what it means to be a man today. Motivated by the man’s man and sympathized by the women who respects a man in his vulnerability, it can be hard